What the heck?!? The most exciting new soul release of the year
comes from a group from ... Australia? Just who/what are these Teskey
Brothers, who sound like they should come from Georgia, and record at
Stax? Just a year ago they were an obscure group out of Melbourne who'd
been playing tiny gigs for 10 years but hadn't even recorded or toured.
Now they are stars at home, and getting a world-wide launch, on the
strength of this debut.
You can safely say
these guys like their retro sounds, it doesn't insult them. The band,
two brothers named Josh and Sam Teskey, and two pals, want to make
southern soul and authentic rhythm and blues music, and they found the
more they played it old-school, the better audiences liked them. Josh
handles lead vocals, and he's mastered that plaintive sound that puts so
much emotion into '60's soul. Sam's the lead guitar player, and has
more of an affinity for blues players, but it all fits together nicely.
They do a wicked straight blues on Reason Why, which will help them
build a broader fan base. The greatest strength though comes from the
group's mid-tempo soul numbers, with those aching, Otis-styled vocals
and two-man horn parts, just like Stax always did it.
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